Jacob Vargas — Actor (40)
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Beyond Skyline (2017) IMDb TMDB
Beyond Skyline
director: Liam O'Donnell actor: Frank Grillo / Bojana Novaković …
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
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Cesar Chavez (2014) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cesar Chavez
director: Diego Luna actor: Michael Peña / Rosario Dawson …
other title: 人權鬥士：凱薩·查維斯
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
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Heaven Is for Real (2014) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Heaven Is for Real
director: Randall Wallace actor: Greg Kinnear / Kelly Reilly …
other title: Den Himmel gibt's echt / 真的有天堂 …
After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
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Sleep Dealer (2008) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sleep Dealer
director: Alex Rivera actor: Leonor Varela / Jacob Vargas …
other title: 梦游交易所 / 夢遊交易所
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
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Traffic (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Traffic
director: Steven Soderbergh actor: Michael Douglas / Benicio del Toro …
other title: Traffic - Macht des Kartells / 毒品网络 …
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ernest Goes to Camp
director: John Cherry actor: Jim Varney / Victoria Racimo …
other title: Chaos im Camp / 厄内斯特去露营 …
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
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Selena (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Selena
director: Gregory Nava actor: Jennifer Lopez / Jackie Guerra …
other title: Selena - Ein amerikanischer Traum / 哭泣的玫瑰
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
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The Hi-Lo Country (1998) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Hi-Lo Country
director: Stephen Frears actor: Billy Crudup / Woody Harrelson …
other title: Hi-Lo Country - Im Land der letzten Cowboys / 非戀不可
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
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Airborne (1993) IMDb TMDB
Airborne
director: Rob Bowman actor: Shane McDermott / Seth Green …
other title: Cool Blades - Nur der Sieg zählt
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
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Road Dogz (2002) IMDb TMDB
Road Dogz
director: Alfredo Ramos actor: Clifton Collins Jr. / Greg Serano …
other title: Ghetto Dogz
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004) IMDb TMDB
Flight of the Phoenix
director: John Moore actor: Dennis Quaid / Tyrese Gibson …
other title: Der Flug des Phoenix
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
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Death Race (2008) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Death Race
director: Paul W. S. Anderson actor: Jason Statham / Joan Allen …
other title: 絕命尬車 / 殺戮時速 …
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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The Principal (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Principal
director: Christopher Cain actor: Jim Belushi / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Der Prinzipal / 流氓校长
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Next Friday (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Next Friday
director: Steve Carr actor: Ice Cube / Mike Epps …
other title: 瘋狂星期五 / 疯狂星期五
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.